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What do quarks, electrons, and photons have in common? They’re all part of the Standard Model - the theory that helped ...

Dark Matter remains one of the biggest mysteries in fundamental physics. Many theoretical proposals (axions, WIMPs) and 40 years of extensive experimental search failed to provide any explanation of ...

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first ...

The 2025 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics took place in Marseille from 7 to 11 July.

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are some holes ...

Astronomers have long relied on supercomputers to simulate the immense structure of the Universe, but a new tool called ...

Michael Riordan surveys the extraordinary year of 1964, which saw the birth of the quark model, the invention of the Higgs ...

For more than two decades, astronomers have wrestled with one of the biggest mysteries in science: what is driving the ...